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Ask HN: Need assistance from the Hive Mind
oh great Hacker News Hive Mind, not long ago (in cosmic terms anyway, probably like 4 years ago) there was a link to a short story about
* young girl on Earth who accepts an invitation to leave the planet shortly before its doom
* girl joins the consciousness that saved her and is basically uploaded into a cosmic computer of sorts
* they can go active or dormant, allowing them to experience the universe in realtime or timelapse along with the billions of other saved minds (earthly and non-earthly)
* something starts gobbling up the distributed nodes that the saved minds occupy
* just before the end of the universe, the girl and her companion get abducted by this unknown thing that turns out to be <spoiler removed>
Something happened recently that triggered a memory of it and I wanted to track it down. I have googled and googled and googled, but I'm not finding it, so I am finally resorting to this.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?!
You're the best.
- Varkiil 11y agoI have no idea what this is but I bet it's about Dr.Who
- xtrumanx 11y agoSounded like Asimov to me but then again I don't know many other sci-fi authors.
- geromek 11y agoWhovian here, I find some resemblances with Death in Heaven episode (http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Death_in_Heaven_%28TV_story%29 http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Death_in_Heaven_%28TV_story%29) but for sure it is not what the OP refers to.
- outworlder 11y agoSince it sounds like sci-fi, try posting it to scifi.stackexchange.com , tag 'story-identification' (http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identi...)
- colinbartlett 11y agoMaybe try http://www.reddit.com/r/scifi http://www.reddit.com/r/scifi and affiliated sub-Reddits?
- Rifu 11y agoThe plot sounds very similar to Asimov's The Last Question[1], which is most definitely not the short story you're describing but a very fascinating read nonetheless. [1] http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html
- bwooceli 11y agoIt is very similar to that, and my memory of it was triggered by someone else talking about TLQ. Went something like "Well, if you liked TLQ, you should really check out... oh hang on, what the hell was that thing called again!?"
- Squarel 11y agoWas it this one? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_%28novel%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_%28novel%29 from this thread on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8547249 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8547249